Richard Socher publishes 'The Eureka Machine' and founds Recursive_SI to build AI scientists

RichardSocher · x · 2026-09-23

Richard Socher's new book The Eureka Machine is out today, on building full-stack scientific superintelligence:

Core stack: a living map of human knowledge, a model of physical reality, high-fidelity simulations, autonomous labs, and an agent swarm of AI scientists
Start with the science of AI itself (tightest feedback loop), then expand to physics, chemistry and especially pre-clinical biology
While writing, chapters kept shifting from 'someone should do this' to 'someone has done this' — e.g. virtual cells, where CZI now runs the largest cell-modeling effort
Socher and seven others founded Recursive SI to build it; he argues AI-accelerated science 'isn't zero sum' and 'may be the last organic invention we need'

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